Widow’s Insurance Benefits Law and Legal Definition
Widow’s benefit refer to those insurance benefit granted to a widow if such widow is not married, she has attained the age of 60, or has attained age of 50 but has not attained age 60 and is under a disability.
Widow’s insurance benefits are entitled to be granted on the following conditions:
1. She has filed application for widow's insurance benefits,
2. She was entitled to wife's insurance benefits, on the basis of the wages and self-employment income of such individual, for the month preceding the month in which such individual died,
3. She has attained retirement age
42 USCS § 416 defines the term widow as the surviving wife of an individual, but only if she is the mother of his son or daughter, she legally adopted his son or daughter while she was married to him and while such son or daughter was under the age of eighteen, he legally adopted her son or daughter while she was married to him and while such son or daughter was under the age of eighteen, she was married to him at the time both of them legally adopted a child under the age of eighteen.
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